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From Black Eden to Migrant Prison: ICE’s second largest detention center nationwide opens 80 minutes from Leelanau County
Glen Arbor Sun - Michigan
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July 7, 2025
More than 200 people rallied in Grand Rapids on April 17, to protest the opening of GEO Group’s for-profit ICE detention center in Baldwin. Photo by José Guadalupe Jiménez Jr By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor In These Times originally published a...
Nestlé PH welcomes new CEO
The Manila Times
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July 7, 2025
Nestlé Philippines, Inc. on Monday said Mauricio Alarcón had taken over as its new chairman and CEO, succeeding Kais Marzouki who was now Nestlé Greater China Region head. “As Mauricio takes the helm of Nestlé Philippines, he looks forward to...
Top 10 African countries with the strongest energy regulation frameworks
Business Insider Africa
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June 22, 2025
This year’s ERI results reflect not just the adoption of laws and policies, but the tangible implementation of reforms by various African countries, leading to stronger and more autonomous regulatory institutions. Since its launch in 2018, the ERI...
Liberia: As Five African Heads of State Prepare for High-stakes White House talks, President Trump Pushes Trade over Aid in Renewed African policy framework
Front Page Africa
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July 7, 2025
Washington, D.C. – President Donald Trump is set to host the heads of state from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal at the White House next week for a luncheon aimed at strengthening commercial and security ties between the...
Africa: Solar energy growth amid grid, finance and policy hurdles
ESI Africa
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June 20, 2025
Large-scale solar projects across Africa are gathering momentum as governments and developers ramp up efforts to decarbonise their energy systems and meet growing electricity demand. At the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town, panelists delved into...
US basketball training for Senegal cancelled after visas rej...
Modern Ghana
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A training camp for the Senegalese women's basketball team in the US has been scrapped, with the West African nation's prime minister saying he cancelled it because some of the squad were denied US visas. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said the team...
WAES: Turn West Africa’s Demographic Strength, Mineral Wealth Into Jobs, Industry – Tinubu Tells Leaders
The Will
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June 21, 2025
June 21, (THEWILL) – President Bola Tinubu has called for urgent collective economic transformation across the region, saying West African nations must turn their mineral wealth into domestic economic value chains for jobs and technology. Tinubu...
Senegal’s territorial claim halts Bullock Army Camp fencing
The Point
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Jerreh Badjie, a member of the Village Development Committee (VDC) and mediator between the Senegalese authorities and the village community, voiced his worries about the insecurity stemming from the Senegalese authorities to halt the ongoing...
Senegal’s cement market expands 5% in April
International Cement Review
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June 12, 2025
Cement sales in Senegal picked up by five per cent in April 2025 to 589,800t, according to Senegal’s Planning and Economic Policy Directorate. In April 2024 Senegalese producers sold 562,000t of cement. Total production edged up by 0.7 per cent to...
From N64bn To N532bn, CCECC Abandons 2nd Abuja Runway Project
Daily Independent
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July 7, 2025
1 …Stakeholders Insist 2nd Runway Unnecessary LAGOS – The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), the contractor awarded the construction of the second runway for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, has...
Senegal: Head of State calls on the government to involve young people in food sovereignty.
Sene News
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June 12, 2025
On Wednesday, Head of State Bassirou Diomaye Faye called upon the government to enhance the participation and mobilization of youth in agricultural development and the promotion of food sovereignty, as reported by an official source. In this...
Leveraging intra-African trade to boost Nigeria’s manufacturing sector
Daily Trust
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June 20, 2025
In 2022, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM), Nigeria’s first indigenous automobile manufacturing company, secured a $4.7 million deal to supply vehicles to the government of Sierra Leone, as ordered by the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Defence. The...
Senegal to host the 19th edition of the African Food Systems Forum from August 30 to September 5
Sene News
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June 12, 2025
The President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, urged the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Livestock, the Minister in charge of Youth and the Secretary of State for Cooperatives and Farmer Supervision, the need to take all...
Kenya, Senegal top AfDB Electricity Regulatory Index
Independent (Uganda)
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June 20, 2025
Uganda, Liberia and Niger round out the top five performers Nairobi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya and Senegal have claimed the top spots in the African Development Bank’s 2024 Electricity Regulatory Index (ERI) demonstrating exceptional...
Africa’s chief diplomat for vaccine manufacturing
Nature
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Working scientist profiles This article is part of an occasional series in which Nature profiles scientists with unusual career histories or outside interests. More than 300 people gathered at Senegal’s seaside Hôtel Terrou-bi for the centenary...
US basketball training for Senegal cancelled after visas rejected
KNOX Radio - North Dakota
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June 20, 2025
A training camp for the Senegalese women's basketball team in the US has been scrapped, with the West African nation's prime minister saying he cancelled it because some of the squad were denied US visas. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said the team...
Shipping line hikes charges on Asia–W’Africa route cargoes
Punch
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June 11, 2025
Effective June 15, CMA CGM Shipping Lines will commence the collection of a $1,200 Peak Season Surcharge per twenty-foot equivalent unit of containers on West African-bound cargoes, including Nigerian cargoes coming from Asia. The company, in a...
Youth-Led Innovations Set to Transform Africa’s Agriculture
TV47
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June 20, 2025
Four young agricultural technology (AgriTech) innovators have emerged as the winners of the AYuTe NextGen 2025 competition, following three days of presentations, open dialogue, and bold ideas in Kampala, Uganda. This event was developed and...
IHG to bring Holiday Inn hotel brand to Dakar, Senegal
Hotel Management Network
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June 20, 2025
IHG Hotels & Resorts has entered a new franchise agreement with real estate construction company Senegindia to introduce the Holiday Inn SD City Dakar in Senegal. Set to launch in 2027, the hotel will feature 150 rooms and is part of IHG’s...
The challenges of vaccine production in Africa
Fides
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June 19, 2025
Thursday, 19 June 2025 World Health Organization (WHO) by Cosimo Graziani Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In recent weeks, a Lassa fever vaccine developed by local researchers in Nigeria has shown initial signs of effectiveness in combating the disease,...